A long pipe, typically underground, for conveying oil over long distances.
at least two oil pipelines were sabotaged
Example sentencesExamples
- Some warring tribal leaders have threatened to blow up existing oil pipelines owned by Chevron and Shell.
- An accident in Saudi Arabia led to the severing of an oil pipeline.
- Virtually all of the recent political machinations in the region can be best understood through the prism of oil pipeline politics.
- Rock legends are usually known for hemorrhaging money on cocaine or being glad-handed into harebrained oil pipeline investments.
- Their unit was supposed to be guarding the oil pipeline from Baghdad to Haifa.
- They set the stage for construction of a massive oil pipeline through Afghanistan.
- He happened to be involved in setting up an oil pipeline from the Caspian Sea that would run through Afghanistan.
- Someone who simply wants to destroy an oil pipeline to me is just not sufficiently important as a villain.
- It is increasing its military presence in some of the former nations of the old Soviet Union as a means of safeguarding potential future oil pipeline routes.
- It's one of a dozen native Alaskan companies formed to ease construction of the oil pipeline.